Grade 5

Describe the structure, functions, and interdependence of the major body systems, including the reproductive, endocrine, and urinary systems.

Explain how to manage common minor illnesses such as colds and skin infections.

Identify how to distinguish between myth and fact when accessing information about health.

Identify decision-making skills that promote individual, family, and community health.

Describe the benefits of promoting health maintenance for individuals and households.

Analyze how personal hygiene helps prevent the spread of germs and communicable illnesses.

Distinguish between treatments if infected by various vectors, including ticks and mosquitos.

Analyze how thoughts and emotions influence behaviors.

Practice and apply strategies for calming and self-management.

Explain ways of maintaining healthy relationships and resisting negative peer influence in social groups.

Analyze how to identify perspectives and respectful ways to communicate disagreement with friends, family, teachers, and others.

Define and differentiate between sympathy and empathy toward others.

Describe ways to engage in and promote positive interactions when conflict arises.

Identify and demonstrate strategies to help build self-esteem for self, friends, and others.

Describe benefits of setting and implementing short-and long-term goals and perseverance to achieve those goals.

Discuss choices and decision making as part of goal setting.

Identify goals that one wishes to achieve, including identifying areas for one's personal growth and ways to gather constructive feedback.

Identify factors such as school climate and safety measures that affect an individual's physical, emotional, and social health.

Discuss how brain development during childhood affects emotions and decision making.

Compare and contrast healthy and unhealthy methods for managing concerns related to long-term health conditions for self and others.

Identify situations in which stress can help to achieve goals and build resiliency.

Examine ways to reduce the impact of stress, trauma, loss, and grief.

Define eating disorders and disordered eating patterns as mental health concerns and the importance of seeking help from a parent or another trusted adult for self or others if these patterns are observed.

Describe situations that call for professional mental health services.

Discuss healthy alternatives to harming oneself, others, or property and the importance of telling a parent or another trusted adult when someone is struggling to manage overwhelming emotions or lacks support.

Identify foods that are sources of one or more of the six major nutrients.

Examine food labels and menus for nutritional content, calories, and serving sizes.

Identify the amount of sugar in common beverages and snacks and the daily recommended allowance for added sugar.

Identify caffeine content of common beverages and health concerns associated with excess caffeine consumption.

Explain the physical, mental, and social benefits of fitness.

Describe the importance of goal setting and set a goal for achieving appropriate levels of physical activity.

Research and evaluate health products and information about physical activity and nutritional choices.

Describe the connection between dietary choices and the prevention of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

Identify attitudes and behaviors that can reduce the likelihood of developing chronic conditions such as obesity, heart disease, or diabetes.

Analyze strategies for preventing and responding to injuries.

Explain strategies for avoiding violence, gangs, and weapons and define human trafficking.

Examine characteristics of gang behavior.

Identify safety procedures that can be used in various situations, including violence in the home, school, and community.

Create a personal safety plan.

Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate boundaries for digital and online communication and research.

Explain the benefits of identity protection in digital and online environments.

Analyze the consequences of cyberbullying and inappropriate digital and online communication in relation to home, school, and community environments.

Identify methods available to report bullying.

Identify ways to advocate for self and others to prevent bullying and cyberbullying behavior.

Explain the impact of abuse and neglect and the importance of reporting abuse and neglect.

Explain the reasons to avoid the misuse of over-the-counter and prescription drugs.

Identify and explain the importance of each component of prescription and over-the-counter drug labels.

Describe the physiological effects of alcohol, vaping products, tobacco, other drugs, and dangerous substances.

Analyze the short-and long-term harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, and dangerous substances such as inhalants and household products on the functions of the body systems and mental and social health.

Describe the legal consequences of the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, and dangerous substances.

Describe the signs of poisoning or overdose and identify how to respond, including who to contact for help.

Analyze how positive peer influence can be used to help a person decide not to use alcohol or drugs.

Describe the importance of seeking help and reporting unsafe situations related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Assess how being assertive, using refusal skills, and evaluating peer influence can affect decision making and problem solving.

Identify a variety of scenarios and the different types of refusal skills that can be used to avoid the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Identify and describe healthy alternative activities to the use of drugs and other substances.

Identify characteristics of healthy dating/romantic relationships and marriage, including sharing, kindness, honesty, respect, trust, patience, communication, and compatibility.

Define sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault, and sex trafficking.

Identify ways of reporting suspected sexual abuse involving self or others such as telling a parent or another trusted adult.

Identify refusal skills such as saying "no" to any unwanted touch that violates personal boundaries in relationships.

Discuss and explain the importance of making decisions regarding setting personal boundaries and respecting the boundaries of others.

Explain the physical, social, and emotional changes that occur in males and females during puberty and adolescent development.

Describe the process of the menstrual cycle.

Identify and describe the role of hormones in the growth and development of secondary sex characteristics such as body hair growth and voice change in males.

Define the processes of fertilization and reproduction.

Identify significant milestones of fetal development.